Re: Round two mPlayer

[Brian Keefe <bkeefe@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the tip. I did a list in yum based on some of the names of
the drivers on the page and I found a livna package for the Fire GL
cards. Once I installed that, my video played just fine. THANKS!

Now, the next problem. With this new driver, I noticed that my 3d
support was a little slow. My son helped me test it with glxgears and
found out that I was only getting about 100-200 fps. Also, when we did
glxinfo we discovered the Direct Rendering was disabled. Is there an
easy way to enable direct rendering? I am assuming from talking to my
son and reading on the web that that is the reason my frame rate is so
poor.

Thanks for your help!


On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 07:11 -0500, Neil Birchler wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2005, at 4:10 AM, Brian Keefe wrote:
> 
> *snip*
> > ATI Mobility Fire GL 7800
> *end snip*
> 
> Are you using ATI's binary driver or X.org's?
> Some old installation instructions for the binary Fire GL driver:  
> http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html
> If you don't have a problem with binary drivers, this one is faster  
> and more feature rich than the X.org supplied driver. Since you have  
> an actual Fire GL card, you may not have the stability problems some  
> people have had either.
> 
> If you aren't using the binary drivers, here's the X.org info page  
> for their radeon driver:
> http://www.x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/radeon.4.html
> 
> Looks like it provides the XV extension too, though. If you look  
> through your log file for X.org, do you see anything about the XV  
> extension being initialized? If mplayer is working with -vo x11, xv  
> is probably the culprit.
> 
> Neil
> 
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